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PAGE 4. XZbz plattsrnoutb journal I'lHLISIIKD SKMI-WKKKI.V AT I'LATTSJHU'TII, seiik.vska. Entered at Postoflice at l'lattsmoutli. Ne b., an socoiul-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher SLIISC1UPTIOX 1'IIKi:: l-.0 PKll VKAIl l. AIJVA.MK ,ry awsa.?. .?..".'..-.. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Foresight is very wise, but -l-l' foresorrow is very foolish, and castles are, at any rate, better than dungeons in the air. Sir J -i John Lubbock. ! Lower wheat prices fololwed record breaking receipts. :o: Don't burn the leaves, but rake them up for your gardens. :o : November 2, and the prettiest fall weather one ever saw. -:o:- I'armers are cutting and gathering corn. The crops is turning out well. :o : The leaves are falling pretty fast and the trees are looking pretty bare. :o: '"America, first, last and all the time," should be the cry of everyone who comes here to make their home. :o: Democratic national committee rroeets in Washington December 7 to select time and place for the conven tion. :o: Are you ready for winter? If not, you had better be getting ready. We are liable to have Old Yv'inter in upon us any day now. j -:o:- If the Bryans try to switch the democratic party to the prohibition side, it will be the death knell to the party in Nebraska. Make a note of that. -::- Brother Charles says democratic candidates must take a stand on pro hibition. Charley Bryan will find out one of the.-c days that he is not the "whole cheese"' in the democratic party of Nebraska. :o : The man who gots after Dan Stephens' scalp in the primar y in the Third district will find a'ter the pri mary he has no scalp him;e'f. Dan is too good a congressman for even an attempt to override him at the pri mary. :o: Omaha does not seem to be making much noise about securing the demo cratic national convention. As the committee will meet in Washington on December 7, it looks to the man up the tree as though they ought to get busy if they really expect to make an effort for the convention. :o: If Governor Morehead decides to be come a candidate for congress in the First district he will worry Reavis fo blamed hard that he won't know which one of the boys he is. Reavis is not so pmooth as he pretends to be, and r.ot the vote-getter that Governor Morehead is by a long sh't. :o: You do not see very many metropol itan journals discussing the tariff question. It is mostly the little one horse country editors, who know no more about tariff than the man in the moon. But they manage to keep up a howl of "Hard Times," when the peo ple were never more prosperous. Any thing with them for a party issue. :o: Next Sunday November 7 is state Sunday school day, and you are ex pected to go because the governor cordially requests you to and because the Sunday schools will gladly wel come you. It has perhaps been a long t'-i-i: since many of you have been to Sunday tchool, and your attendance on this day will renew the scenes of your early childhood when you attended every Sunday, because your dear old n.other wanted you to. THE BATTLE CRY. Boiled down, Henry D. Estabrook's address to the MeKinley club Friday evening was devoted to thr:e themes: First, he charged the democrats with having driven prosperity from the land; second, he blamed President Wilson for bungling with the Mexi can problem and for having kept this nation out of the European war; third, he declared the necessity of re publican reunion in order that the party of Lincoln, Garfield and Mc Kinley may be restored to power. This is the speech which Mr. Esta brook's friends hail as introducing him to the country for presidential preference. Presumably, then, it sums up the candidate's idea of the strong est arguments that may be advanced for his election, or for that of any other republican. First, he declares that the demo cratic administration has plunged the country into a slough of business de spondency, from which it has rallied only temporarily because of the '"la mentable but lucrative" traffic in war supplies, a rally which, with the end of the war, will leave it in worse condition than it was before. It is true that a portion of the country's pres ent remarkable prosperity is due to profiting from the war. But it is not true that this is the sole basis of pros perity. It is a pity that Mr. Estabrook did not read the Friday Evening World-Herald before he delivered that speech and note therein this statement by A. R. Malcolm, assistant general freight agent of the Missouri Pacific: ''We are completely swamped with business. Building material, groceries, lumber, piping and all this freight of healthy nature compose3 most cf this tremendous traffic. It is a wave of prosperity such' as cur railroad has never .ten before, and has but litt'.e to ! do with the war." It is a pity, too, that Mr. Estabrook's fourteen years in New York have so far led him to worship that hub of the universe as to forget that, funda mentally, this country is nationally prosperous when the harvest is good. The harvest has been good. The farm ers are prosperous. And because they are prosperous, the tradespeople and the manufacturers must also be pros perous, willy-nilly, war or no war, calamity howls or not. But how about Mexico? Mr. Esta brook denounces the taking of Vera Cruz as "the outcome of a superflu ous threat made by our president" and then, although he thus censures the invasion of foreign territory, he turns light about face and objects again because "we should have made good the threat and stopped the dog fight." He laments the death of a ?core of American soldier boys, "whose blood cries shame upon us," and as quickly demands that the blood of thousands more should have been shed. Would not that vastly greater tragedy have been a thousand-fold more shameful ? But assume that Mr. Estabrook is right. He says the president's Mexi can policy has been ''fatuous, chap fallen and humiliating." Call it so! What would Mr. Estabrook do? One searches his words in vain to find even the faintest suggestion or hint of what action he would take will take, if he should be successful in putting a republican in the White house. Mr. Estabrook may claim that we falsely state his position when ve Kay that he criticizes the president for keeping this country out of war. Let his words ftpeak for themselves. His whole statement on this topic fol lows: "Ah! But there is Mr. Wilson's for eign policy. Has not his masterful statesmanship kept us out of war? No! The most that can be claimed on that score is that he has not, by some superhuman blunder, plunged us into ! war." j A case of "damned if vou do and! damned if you don't!" But, fortunately, Omaha and Ne braska need not let Mr. Estabrook quit his former native soil without an expression of their approval on at!n'Pht in h5s address upon the qucs least a part of his speech. He expres ses a certain conviction of the neces- sity of a reunited republicanism, if that party is to again attain national power. As to that, none can gainsay him. Most certainly the republican party must be reunited if it is to re turn to power. Most certainly a ter rific amity terrific is the word must prevail if the various contradic tory, quarrelsome, leaderless, groping republicans are again to occupy a place in the sun. But, are the republicans ready to unite to so flimsy a battle cry? And are the voters ready to entrust the country's affairs, at so critical a time, to such petulant and constructiveless philosophizing. World-Herald. . :o : The wheat market seems to have an upward swing. Ain't you glad Hallowe'en is over? Why, of course you are. :o: King George thanks the French srrav. He sure ougnt to. ;o : Bacon is still so high-priced that It is a sheer waste to cook it. Only about thirty-five selling days before Christmas. Remember that. :o r Think of spending another winter in those trenches! And is this war? :o: Having been recognized, many peo ple are wondering if Carranza wiil touch us for a loan? :o The contractors in Plattsmouth are hoping for a moderate winter having o much outside work to do. :o : Tired business man may wish for just one day in which he could be as free from care as those whose only task is to rake the dead leaves. :o: A Japanoso lantern has a hure contempt for a Hallowe'en pumpkin o do a stunt with a candle inside of it. :o: What would have been the fate of Miss Cavell if she had done one-hun dredth part of the destruction planned in a neutral country by Leutenant Fay cf the German army? :o: Announcements for state and county offices are appearing in some of our exchanges. Remember, gentlemen, you are never too early to do good to yourself. The primaries are four months earlier than usual. Throw your hat in the ring and come to the front. :o: They have just had two earthquake shocks at Ashevi'Ie, the North Caro lina town in which Mr. Bryan has established his neweFt residence, which fact may inspire the hope that Fair view may yet be restored to some other use than as a residence for vot ing and patronage distribution pur poses only. Lincoln Star. :o: "Dan Cupid" is credited with cut ting very queer capers sometimes, and politics will be in the queer caper bunch in the next six months. There is no question as to the republicans be ing divided on many questions, and the democratic party is in the same boat, and from present indications, it is hard to tell how politics will stack up between now and the election. The trouble with the democratic party is that a few fellows about Lincoln want to steer the party where many who have always been democrats do not want to go, and will not go. There fore, we cannot perceive very much difference in the condition of both parties. Another thing is, many in both parties have asserted their inten tions of voting next year independent of party, and this sentiment is steadily increasing. So it is necessary for the leaders of the democratic party throughout the state to get wise as to the maneuvers of the Lincoln fellows. PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. RAILROADS AND THE PUBLIC lt was a gloomy picture that Mr. B F. Bush, receiver of the Missouri Ta- j i ciiie system, displayed to the members) and guests of the Commercial club at st- Louis, at its meeting Wednesday tion, "Why Are Certain Important Western Railroads in the Hands of ! Receivers?" It was gloomy becausa Mr. Euih had little else but grays and j blacks upon his palette. It is true, as he stated, that the railroads, par ticularly those of the central west, are in a bad way. It is true that a great deal of legislation has been apparent ly designed for the destruction rather than the regulation of railroads; that taxes, wages and cost of materials have increased while rates have been arbitrarily lowered below the pos sibility of profit; that the railroads, I. in short, have been ground between the upper and the nether millstones of public antagonism and economic cir cumstances. But there was a bit of brighter color that Mr. Brush might have put into his picture, for it be longs there. Let us apply it, and then take mother look. The picture is t'.ie same, yes, but away in the background we may .low discern a spot of blue that breaks the leaden sky. Mr. Bush and the gentlemen who listened to him the other night would do well to keep their eyes upon that bit of blue, for it is the changing attitude of public opinion. How often on a sad and dreary day we have looked up and observed a lit tjc rift within the clouds and we have murmured hopefully, "Perhaps it will clear after awhile." We go on about our business and a little later we realize the sun is shining, although we did not note its first appearance. We look up again, and, miracle! the clouds have disappeared; not dis persed, but dissolved. So it will be, we think, with this railroad situation. It was brought about by public opinion, largely because of evilj that did exht in the railroad business. It is public opinion that will restore it, and soon restore it, to the prosperity to which it is entitled anil without which there can be no general and permanent pros pei ity in this country. The people are learning by hard experience that the railroads, rightly managed, are not enemies but friends, not evils but necessities, and they are beginning to realize that the new type of railroad manager, the type that has come up through great tribulation, can conduct his properties with fidelity to its stockholders and with right regard ;o the public interests at the same time. A new era is dawning in the railroad business. One of these days, and the time is not so far distant, the railroad men of the country will look out of their windows and discover a clear sky. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. :o: Tuesday, April 18, is the date of the primaries next year for the nomination of both state and county officers. :o: There never is a last rose of sum mer, as there never is a last straw berry since horticulturists got busy. :o: If M. Briand, premier of Fiance, would insert a "g" in the middle of his name he might become a power in Mexico. :o:- It is hard to work up much sym pathy for Mormons who went to Mexico to get away from United States laws. -:o: Profits from the big war trade will gradually get into general circulation. Already the doctors have operated up on Mr. Morgan. :o: It is not a bit too early to get your stores in shape for the Christmas shopping. It is only seven weeks from Saturday till Christmas. :o : : The so-called prophecy of Kitchener that the war would end in May and cf the kaiser that it would end in Octo ber are now both exploded. -:or- A grapefruit about the size of a base ball has at last been produced; and will that reduce it to the price of an orange? Certainly not. The idea that it is a luxury dies hard. Do your holiday advertising early. :o: Woman suii.age won't go in the east :o: j Jack Frost visits us every night now. Higher prices for wheat, and may go higher. :, ; October returns show big increase J in the volume cf railroad busines "Fay disowned by his government." The instantaneous fate of any caught spy. :o : It is contended that Eve was the first summer girl, because she arrived before the fall. :o: New Orleans is becoming a city of big things. Its rat-i-fieation bills runs to nearly . 000,000. :o : The wets make a clean sweep in Ohio, notwithstanding the desperate efforts of our own W. J. Bryan for prohibition. :u: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but u it wore an American Beauty by any other name it wouldn't cost as much. Aldrich ir. determined to make the lace for the republican nomination fur United State.-; senator, despite the severe criticisms he is receiving daily from members of h own , party. -:u:- Next Friday is the day set apart by the governor as "Clean Up Day." Do jou intend to heed the governor's ad vice? It may help some of you, in many ways. Do it, ami do it well. :o: Revolution in Mexico may be slowly subsiding because the peons have found that there: were no free farms to be given out. Forty acres of sand and cactus needs irrigation; and it re quires a pretty well ceutralir.ed an-.l cmcient government to provide that. :o: There is not a day in the week that the speed laws are not violated, and foms sort of an accident occurs in con sequence. A few heavy fine.; might make a cure for this evil. lie that spoedeth his auto beyond the limit of the law deserves to pay for his foily. :o: Some cf those fellows who slipped into office on the popularity of Gov ernor Morehead will find out that they can't do it the next time. If Gover nor Morehead is to be a candidate for re-election next year we would advise him to cut loose from the heavy weight he will be compelled to drag after him. :o : We are pleased to note that our friend. Will Maupin, will hereafter have charge of the York Democrat and the democrats of that section should feel highly elated over the an nouncement of this fact. Mr. Maupin is one of the best writers in Nebras ka, and we are glad that he is in a position now where he can "spread himself." The Journal wishes Will an abundance of success. :o : The death of Herman Bidder in New York removes from the scenes of this life one of the ablest and most noted German citizens in America. lie was bold, brave, fearless and honest in all his work. He was a democrat, and always behaved in true democratic manciples, and never deviated from that line one ioto. He was a true American German, while he loved the Fatherland, he was for America first, last and all the time. :o : One of the visiting ladles who was grieved by the refusal of Governor Morehead to sign the nation-wide suffrage petition did not like his ex planation that his state had voted against suffrage and that he did not deem it right to use his position as governor in signing that petition. It was a logical conclusion, but Mrs. Sarah Bard Field thought it was the duty of a statesman to lead, not fol low. She probably had in mind some ctatesmen who seek to lead their con stituents around by the nose. Lincoln Star. nfi "7V..:r..ii;i.-ar-i:itcE.vE .1.. v ..- .-.ll.l Hfftv'clSOl rroiiiok5iJiycsIion.n!cafid iicss juk! licit-Coutauis jKjto Hot ?fAiM:2liiL J';-;rrr.:l - l:r.n - .'.1 l lVoVirc-.efl 53 a ., ,r.,...l,iro(.f L - ..-v.'4TSSt51 SAFETY ITIIST" IN SCHOOL N-. t since a sin.i'ar holocaust in ur.: revcrr.! ye-r. .-. ago nave the m i tht :s of sfiu.ol childi cn been so! worried o.-er the faf'.ty of tlicir little ones as thty are vow, after the Massa- chu-vtts fire horror which cost the live.- of twonty-oro 'ittle one-. Hut few mothers r.-. Orm-.ha, it is rafo to say, will I21 their tots go o;T to S'.hool this Monday morning with out feeling, if1 greater or less degree. tiie shad r.v of the Pcabody tragedy. Courtlcss dangers of disease and ac cid ::-. t be-et the path rf every child, bv.t none l-:1.5 quite the horrifying threat of death by fire. Luckily, Omaha m;'y point with con- fiderable pride to her public school building.'-. One factor in increasing lo cal trxej hr.s been the quality of the buildings erected for public school u?e in recent years. It is a factor which no taxpayer will care to make the basis for an outcry. Rather, the pro test is that still more money has r.ot been spent for so worthy a purpose. There is always the chance of panic J when children are grouped together, j r.o matter now caieiiuiy me uuiminj; is constructed or planned. The chances can be greatly reduced, how ever, by careful design and fire-proof material. There is not a school build ing in Omaha, for instance, which has doers opening inward, as was the case with the ill-fated Massachusetts struc ture. There is not an outer door but that is opened at the touch of a child, even by the weight of the body press ing against it. No turning of keys or knobs or moving of bolts is necessary. In the newer buildings stairways of iron and f.ocrs of concrete reduce the actual fire danger to a minimum. True, there are still some old struc tures which need to be replaced. The board -'of education is about to spend $1,000,000 in relieving the worst of these situations. It is work which should not lag. World-Herald. :o: There is a growing feeling that it pays public corporations to spend a dollar row and then just to get the public's good will, even if the returns don't come back the same day. It Jd & 1- i v ' J T-r Si'Ii .1 if fc M r- . m ci r DR. E- R. TARRY - 240.Beo Bids;.. Omaha. Neb. 2 Q to last a T write tor. book o: piles a:;o recta, diseases with testimonials M DR. t l. TARRY. O Wabrasl. a THURSDAY. N'OVE.MUKK 1, lair,. 1 vu EST EJ &j For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always i Bears tlio Signature of 88 3 ror uver Thirty Years THC CCNTAUR COMMNr. NEW VORK C ITY. If there is nothing worth while, therein lies the satisfaction of taking time to do everything as nearly per- rt-t a ono on ,r one can do it. :o : Friends of A. (). Thomas mav set i; a deferred endorsement of that gen tler.!P.:i at the state teachers' meeting now in session in Omaha. :o:- A great !r.;.i:y democrats in tin First district would like to see Gover nor Morehead come out for congress, sincerely believing he can be elected. Over in Europe they suppress news papers that give any information valu able to the enemy. In this country a lot of the newspapers would suppress ; the 0ffl(.-nis who refuse to give out such information. -:o: Three weeks from today is Thanks giving. While turkeys are high, you should feel thankful that you can al ways get a duck or goose. And then, by that time, maybe, rabbits will b-j good and ripe. :o: It is pretty generally understood among his democratic constituents that Senator John Mattes will be a candidate for re-election. Be made a brilliant record in the last session. No member of that body made a better record. :o: While the republicans are slyly at work all over the state, the democrats are doing nothing. They are not pay ing very much attention to the pro hibition question, which Charley Bryan says the democratic candidates must come out bodly for. We would like to know when this would-be boss became the owner of the democratic party iu Nebraska? -:o:- About one-fifth of Nebraska' gigantic corn crop is safe, according t figures given out Monday in the Bur lington's weekly report. Since the crop itself is so far greater than nor mal, this practically signifies that the state is in possession of close to 1)0 per cent of hard corn. The soft yield is being gathered in many districts for immediate use as fodder. WW P. i Ml! miMmiTWl Cured Fistula and All ctal Dlaaasaa eurad witn ut tha knife. Parmanant curaa araataa. Writ far Fraa Illustrated book on Hectai dikimi ind toatlmonlala af hundrada af curad patlanta In Nebraska and Iowa. FISTULA-Pav When CURED All Rectal Diseases cared wit&out a surgical nnPMtinn. Kn Chloroform. Ether or other gen eral aneasthetic used. CURE GUARANTEED LIFE-TIME. C-examinatios free.